My 44-Year-Old Self Coaches My 55-Year-Old Self
2 January 2023 The year I turned 45, 2012, was not just the best year of my Masters' swimming "career" in terms of performance, I'd put...
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1001 Pools
Dec 29, 20222 min read
Race Report: Leg Day (400 Kick-For-Time)
29 December 2022 Though I made a solid effort at the 400 Kick-For-Time a couple of weeks ago, I felt like my training this fall had...
Dec 19, 20223 min read
Race Report: IM Fast(er) Masters Challenge
18 December 2022 It's been over a decade since I last tried tapering for a meet where I switched out my normal mid-to-long distance focus...
Dec 17, 20223 min read
Five Days of Rest in Five Pools
17 December 2022 While it is certainly not my preference to have a business trip right before a taper meet, this happens more often than...
Dec 11, 20222 min read
Seven Days to Race, Three Days of Rest
11 December 2022 Race day for the Swim Ontario Masters IM Fast meet is in seven days and the psych sheets are out. With my swim...
Dec 7, 20221 min read
4,250 Day Lookback
7 December 2022 With 11 days to go before race day, I looked back to the 2011 short course yards season for taper ideas. That year, I...
Dec 7, 20222 min read
Cap-Channeling Olympians
6 December 2022 Thanks to a late night of work stress, I gotess sleep l than desired, even more so because my body woke me up with my...
Dec 4, 20221 min read
Two Weeks Out = Pulse Plot
4 December 2022 I should not have been surprised that I couldn't really hit anything like peak speed today. I have not taken a day off...
Dec 3, 20222 min read
Women Beating Men
3 December 2022 I caught a few replays from this week's US Open long course championships, highlight reels featuring Katie Ledecky and...
Nov 22, 20221 min read
A percent a week matters
22 November 2022 I've been doing a version of this workout with 5 x 200 straight backstrokes followed by 5 x 200 broken freestyles across...
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